Thomas Kahle wrote: > I'm in contact with Tim Daly now, who seems very interested in getting > axiom to work on Gentoo. The main problem that I see here, and also with > the developers of Macaulay 2, is that upstream often does not feel any > urge to unsplit their build systems. They just build internal copies of > whatever they need. So here with axiom it is that the already internal > gcl builds an internal gmp and upstream would like it better to apply > our gentoo patches to that internal gmp instead of making it work with > system wide gmp. I find it hard to communicate that internal copies are > evil(TM). How do you guys handle that ?
You can always point to one of the numerous flameeyes blog post [1] against bundled libraries, but I'm sure you can come up with a more concise explanation. [1] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/03/23/bundling-libraries-the-curse-of-the-ancients -- Sébastien
